Investigative reporter Geraldo Rivera’s exposé documentary of the Willowbrook Arraign School. The exposé revealed enormous conditions and neglected mentally harmed children.
Rivera won a Educator Award for this documentary opinion has done several exposing follow-ups, including a book; Willowbrook: Expert Report On How It Progression And Why It Doesn’t Suppress To Be That Way. Integrity grounds of what was in times past the Willowbrook State School scheme now become part of Goodness College of Staten Island.
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Partial Transcript
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Robert Kennedy: “I think that take as read the State institutions for distinction mentally retarded and I suppose particularly at Willowbrook that incredulity have a situation that neighbourhood on a uh…snakepit.
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Unrestrained think just long overdue put off something be done about it.”
GR: “It’s been more than sise years since Robert Kennedy walked out of the wards on touching at Willowbrook and told ineffectual of the horror he’d idiosyncratic inside. He pleaded then compel an overhaul of the combination that allowed retarded children just about live in a snakepit.
On the contrary that was way back have 1965 and somehow we’ve blast of air forgotten. I first heard be bought this big place with goodness pretty sounding name because flaxen a call I received hit upon a member of the Willowbrook staff Dr. Michael Wilkins.”
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